The Porto–Vigo high-speed rail line is a proposed high-speed rail line in

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, linking its second largest city

Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...

with the

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city of

Vigo Vigo ( , , , ) is a city and municipality in the province of Pontevedra, within the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. Located in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, it sits on the southern shore of an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, the ...

, Galicia.

Background

Porto and Vigo are currently served by the ''

Celta Celta is Galician, Portuguese and Spanish for the Celts. It may also refer to: * Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA), an English teaching certificate * Celta (train), an international train service connecting Vigo and Port ...

'' service, taking 2 hours and 23 minutes to complete its journey.

High-speed rail in Portugal In February 2009, the government of Portugal announced plans to build a high-speed rail line from Lisbon to Madrid; this plan was cancelled in March 2012 amidst a bailout programme of financial assistance to the Portuguese Republic. The project ...

was planned in the 1990s and formally announced in 2005, which included the Lisbon–Madrid high-speed rail line, a Lisbon to Porto line and the line from Porto to Vigo,

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. The plan was cancelled in 2009 due to the economic downturn. In 2020 the plan was reactivated as part of an initiative by the Portuguese government to invest €43 billion into infrastructure projects by 2030.

Construction

The initial phase will consist of a line between

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and

at a cost of €900 million, with a proposed 30 minute journey time between the two cities.

Route

The line will link Porto to Vigo via

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and Valença, relieving capacity on the existing Linha do Minho. At Vigo, it would join the

Atlantic Axis high-speed rail line The Atlantic Axis high-speed rail line, also called Atlantic Corridor high-speed rail line, is a high-speed railway line that links A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela, Pontevedra and Vigo in Spain. The Atlantic Axis was inaugurated in April 2015. ...

References

Rail transport in Portugal {{Portugal-transport-stub

Background

Construction

Route

See also

References